Setting A Record: Special children sit for matric exams

MIRPUR: Perhaps for the first time in the history of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) , 20 special children including hearing- and speech-impaired students appeared for their matric exams in Mirpur this year. According to Dr Amjad Insari, Director of Kashmir Institutive of Special Education the students were registered by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education AJK as regular candidates. Special question papers for these candidates were prepared thanks collective efforts by leading academicians. After the first batch, students with special needs will be allowed to appear from all across AJK. Earlier, physically challenged children from AJK had to travel to Islamabad or Rawalpindi to sit for their exams.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 28^th, 2012.